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MyMovies.dk Scraper for XBMC --------

Introduction

MyMovies is a huge online database containing meta data for movies. MyMovies is backed by a huge number of users who contribute high quality data and graphics. Users earn points which unlock features in the software. Points can also be obtained by donating if a user do not wish to help contributing data. The donated money is well spent on servers and band width, which results in very fast retrieval of metadata. MyMovies is much more than this, but that is beyond this scope.

Scraper

This is not actually a scraper since a website is not scraped in the traditional way. A webservice is instead called and easy to process XML is returned and imported into XBMC's library.

Getting Started

To use the MyMovies scraper for your library, you first need to create an account, if you have not already got one. Registering as a new user is quickly done via this url;

http://www.mymovies.dk/forum.aspx?g=register

You will also need a number of points (???) in order to use the scraper. The short cut is to donate money but it is recommended that points are earned instead by contributing data and graphics. There is still a huge number of movies in need of fanart/backdrops and posters. These can be found via this url;

http://www.mymovies.dk/editmovie.aspx

By contributing you help increase the quality of the service.

Configuring Scraper

Scraper files (mymoviesdk.xml + MyMoviesLogo.png) are copied to this location; System\Scrapers\Video within your XBMC file stucture.

In XBMC it is then possible to select the MyMovieDK video scraper when setting content for your video sources in file mode.

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You are required to enter your user credentials on the settings page. This is enough to use the scraper.

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Optional Settings

Enable Fanart: Use this option to enable or disable the addition of fanart/backdrops to your library.

Preferred language: Tekst fetched for your movies will be returned in the preferred language if available.

Include adult movies: Will search for adult movie titles if you have such movies in your source.

Example

Consider the following file structure as an example of use.

MovieStructure.jpg

For some titles I have placed a NFO file containing the IMDB url to it's info. This is to show that MyMovies also work with these to get a 100% match.

MovieSample2.jpg NfoExample.jpg

For the rest of the movies, the folder name will be used for searching for the title.

MovieSample1.jpg

Having added a source to this structure and scanned for new content we end up with a library showing this:

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For each movie it's possible to change fanart/backdrop and poster if available:

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Final Words

With the MyMovies.dk video scraper we have shown how to get high quality meta data and graphics into our XBMC library at very high speed.

The data retrieved is film data. This is because XBMC currently do not support disc id's (which MyMovies do), so we have no idea what we are dealing with when calling the MyMovies webservice. This might change some day in XBMC and if it does then the MyMovies scraper can easily be extended to support this and then correct DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-ray front and meta data will be shown in XBMC.

If you're wondering which skin was used for this example, here is an url; http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53830